Computer Information Systems: Computer Software Technology

This course presents accounting as an information system that produces summary financial statements primarily for users external to a business enterprise organized as a corporation. Students study the forms of business organization and the common transactions entered into by businesses. The emphasis is on understanding and applying basic accounting principles and other concepts that guide the reporting of the effect of transactions and other economic events on the financial condition and operating results of a corporation. The procedures of how to analyze and interpret historical financial statements as well and the limitations of using these in making forward-looking business decisions is included. The primary content emphasis will be accounting for current assets and liabilities long-term assets and liabilities corporations cash flow statements and financial statement analyses.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 4 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 4 lec/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): BUS 903

Introduction to Business provides a foundation of knowledge in business including an understanding of the basic processes of marketing finance production accounting information technology human resource management and the relationships of business to our society and government and the global economy.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

This course develops an approach to the study of the fundamentals of computational skills used in business. These computational skills may be employed in businesscommercial decision making and in general quantitative business situations. Quantitative topics include reinforcement of fundamental arithmetic and mathematical processes equations and word problems percentages decimals and fractions product pricing and markup policies bank reconciliations notes and interest payroll records business inventory turnover and insurance principles. Further topics include the study of business depreciation business financial statements business and personal insurance corporate stocks and bonds international business compound interest applications and business statistics.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

Stresses development of the individual and inter-personal relationships applied to business and industry with emphasis upon values communications problem solving motivation and leadership. In addition human relations skills and organizational behavior concepts are developed within modern organization environments to understand behavior performance learning perception values and diversity. Communications skills conflict resolutions power politics ethics and team dynamics are presented and analyzed within modern organizations. Organizational development principles such as organizational change global diversity productivity participative management and time as well as career management skills are presented and applied.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

Instruction in keyboard and machine control techniques with the objective of developing a mastery of the keyboard and skill in producing basic and academic reports.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 4 lab/week

This course will familiarize the user with advanced features of word processing. Course emphasis will include document creation document deleting and document printing editing formatting with fonts margins columns citations creating and formatting tables graphics themes and building blocks merging multipage styles and templates references footnotes integration with Excel and Access building forms collaborating and tracking documents customizing Word.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/2 lab/week

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the process of using personal computers to solve spreadsheet problems. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the basic and advanced capabilities of spreadsheet software the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which spreadsheet solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the use of Windows-based database management system to solve problems. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the basic and advanced capabilities of a Windows database management system the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which database management solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This introductory course consists of the study ofcomputer hardware software operating systems communications networking Internet systems and program development life cycles and their role in business decision making. The use of Internet multimedia security and ethics will be emphasized throughout the course. In addition laboratory experience will be gained with a survey of Microsoft Windows and business computer software applications programs in word processing electronic spreadsheets database management presentation graphics and Internet.

Prerequisite: None. Students having no experience with computers are encouraged to first take CIS 100-Keyboarding
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): BUS 902

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the use of cloud-based office productivity applications for collaboration file sharing project management note-taking communication and organization. Laboratory experience will be gained with a survey of tools including Google Apps Microsoft Office 365 Evernote cloud-based drives and web conferencing tools. Both desktop and mobile tools will be utilized when applicable. Best practices for the business office and security will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: CIS 101 or CIS 109 (concurrent enrollment accepted), or consent of instructor.
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/2 lab/week

An introductory course in the fundamentals of web site design and development. Topics include web site planning typography images multimedia elements publishing and promoting and maintaining a website. Students will create a functional effective and visually appealing web site using a content management system. This class does not use an HTML editor.

Prerequisite: CIS 101 or CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

An introduction to desktop publishing in which students will learn to manipulate edit store and plot both text and graphic information. Students will also learn how to develop and use artistic graphics necessary to produce business forms charts reports newsletters brochures and magazines utilizing the microcomputer.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/4 lab

This course focuses on creating effective and attractive presentation media for business presentations. The student will learn the basics of a software package specifically designed for presentation graphics. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the graphics capabilities of various software packages the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which graphic solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor.
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: .5 lec/1 lab/week

This course offers a hands-on approach to microcomputer maintenance. This course will introduce a history of personal computer evolution as well as the most popular and recent technologies. Students will examine the personal computer laptops and portable devices current operating systems printing scanning techniques basic networking safety and professionalism. This course is designed to prepare the successful student for the CompTIA A Essentials and A Technician exams.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This course covers small business accounting using computer software. Topics include creating a chart of accounts recording customer and vendor transactions processing payroll and printing reports. In addition setting up a new company is covered as well as advanced topics such as exporting to spreadsheet software.

Prerequisite: None. (Recommend CIS 109 and ACC 101)
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/week

A seminar designed to complement the students initial placement in an approved working situation.

Prerequisite: Completion of 12 hours in major field courses. Concurrent enrollment in CIS 235.
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/week

An occupational experience utilizing on-the-job training. All students are required to spend a minimum of 15 hours each week on the job.

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in CIS 231.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 15 lab/week

This course 1 develops awareness of the writing process 2 provides inventional organizational and editorial strategies 3 stresses the variety of uses for writing and 4 emphasizes critical skills in reading thinking and writing.

Prerequisite: Required placement score on approved English placement test, high school unweighted GPA of 3.0 or higher, or a grade of C or higher in ELA 099.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): C1 900

Provides information on principles of written and oral communication specifically applied to business and technical fields. Assignments are designed to develop skill and practice in the use of these principles and include the writing of memoranda business letters instructions informal reports and formal reports. Students are encouraged to tailor assignments to the specific careers they are pursuing. Not applicable for humanities requirement.

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C or higher. Because of emphasis on graphics and computer formatting, students are advised to complete CIS 109 or IND 105 or to have equivalent word processing skills.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

The focus of this course is how to be successful in college. Study skills goal setting academic planning time and money management and information research skills are among the core topics included in this course. Within a supportive environment students will share their college experiences and develop connections with fellow students and SVCC staff.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/week

Introduction to Business provides a foundation of knowledge in business including an understanding of the basic processes of marketing finance production accounting information technology human resource management and the relationships of business to our society and government and the global economy.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

Instruction in keyboard and machine control techniques with the objective of developing a mastery of the keyboard and skill in producing basic and academic reports.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 4 lab/week

This introductory course consists of the study ofcomputer hardware software operating systems communications networking Internet systems and program development life cycles and their role in business decision making. The use of Internet multimedia security and ethics will be emphasized throughout the course. In addition laboratory experience will be gained with a survey of Microsoft Windows and business computer software applications programs in word processing electronic spreadsheets database management presentation graphics and Internet.

Prerequisite: None. Students having no experience with computers are encouraged to first take CIS 100-Keyboarding
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): BUS 902

This course 1 develops awareness of the writing process 2 provides inventional organizational and editorial strategies 3 stresses the variety of uses for writing and 4 emphasizes critical skills in reading thinking and writing.

Prerequisite: Required placement score on approved English placement test, high school unweighted GPA of 3.0 or higher, or a grade of C or higher in ELA 099.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): C1 900

The focus of this course is how to be successful in college. Study skills goal setting academic planning time and money management and information research skills are among the core topics included in this course. Within a supportive environment students will share their college experiences and develop connections with fellow students and SVCC staff.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/week

This course develops an approach to the study of the fundamentals of computational skills used in business. These computational skills may be employed in businesscommercial decision making and in general quantitative business situations. Quantitative topics include reinforcement of fundamental arithmetic and mathematical processes equations and word problems percentages decimals and fractions product pricing and markup policies bank reconciliations notes and interest payroll records business inventory turnover and insurance principles. Further topics include the study of business depreciation business financial statements business and personal insurance corporate stocks and bonds international business compound interest applications and business statistics.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

This course will familiarize the user with advanced features of word processing. Course emphasis will include document creation document deleting and document printing editing formatting with fonts margins columns citations creating and formatting tables graphics themes and building blocks merging multipage styles and templates references footnotes integration with Excel and Access building forms collaborating and tracking documents customizing Word.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/2 lab/week

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the process of using personal computers to solve spreadsheet problems. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the basic and advanced capabilities of spreadsheet software the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which spreadsheet solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

Provides information on principles of written and oral communication specifically applied to business and technical fields. Assignments are designed to develop skill and practice in the use of these principles and include the writing of memoranda business letters instructions informal reports and formal reports. Students are encouraged to tailor assignments to the specific careers they are pursuing. Not applicable for humanities requirement.

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C or higher. Because of emphasis on graphics and computer formatting, students are advised to complete CIS 109 or IND 105 or to have equivalent word processing skills.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

This course presents accounting as an information system that produces summary financial statements primarily for users external to a business enterprise organized as a corporation. Students study the forms of business organization and the common transactions entered into by businesses. The emphasis is on understanding and applying basic accounting principles and other concepts that guide the reporting of the effect of transactions and other economic events on the financial condition and operating results of a corporation. The procedures of how to analyze and interpret historical financial statements as well and the limitations of using these in making forward-looking business decisions is included. The primary content emphasis will be accounting for current assets and liabilities long-term assets and liabilities corporations cash flow statements and financial statement analyses.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 4 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 4 lec/week
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI): BUS 903

Stresses development of the individual and inter-personal relationships applied to business and industry with emphasis upon values communications problem solving motivation and leadership. In addition human relations skills and organizational behavior concepts are developed within modern organization environments to understand behavior performance learning perception values and diversity. Communications skills conflict resolutions power politics ethics and team dynamics are presented and analyzed within modern organizations. Organizational development principles such as organizational change global diversity productivity participative management and time as well as career management skills are presented and applied.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 3 lec/week

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the use of cloud-based office productivity applications for collaboration file sharing project management note-taking communication and organization. Laboratory experience will be gained with a survey of tools including Google Apps Microsoft Office 365 Evernote cloud-based drives and web conferencing tools. Both desktop and mobile tools will be utilized when applicable. Best practices for the business office and security will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: CIS 101 or CIS 109 (concurrent enrollment accepted), or consent of instructor.
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/2 lab/week

An introduction to desktop publishing in which students will learn to manipulate edit store and plot both text and graphic information. Students will also learn how to develop and use artistic graphics necessary to produce business forms charts reports newsletters brochures and magazines utilizing the microcomputer.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/4 lab

This course offers a hands-on approach to microcomputer maintenance. This course will introduce a history of personal computer evolution as well as the most popular and recent technologies. Students will examine the personal computer laptops and portable devices current operating systems printing scanning techniques basic networking safety and professionalism. This course is designed to prepare the successful student for the CompTIA A Essentials and A Technician exams.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This introductory course is designed to acquaint the student with the use of Windows-based database management system to solve problems. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the basic and advanced capabilities of a Windows database management system the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which database management solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

An introductory course in the fundamentals of web site design and development. Topics include web site planning typography images multimedia elements publishing and promoting and maintaining a website. Students will create a functional effective and visually appealing web site using a content management system. This class does not use an HTML editor.

Prerequisite: CIS 101 or CIS 109 or consent of instructor
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This course focuses on creating effective and attractive presentation media for business presentations. The student will learn the basics of a software package specifically designed for presentation graphics. In addition to providing the student with a working knowledge of the graphics capabilities of various software packages the student will be exposed to the use of problem-solving techniques for situations in which graphic solutions are appropriate.

Prerequisite: CIS 109 or consent of instructor.
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: .5 lec/1 lab/week

This course covers small business accounting using computer software. Topics include creating a chart of accounts recording customer and vendor transactions processing payroll and printing reports. In addition setting up a new company is covered as well as advanced topics such as exporting to spreadsheet software.

Prerequisite: None. (Recommend CIS 109 and ACC 101)
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/week

A seminar designed to complement the students initial placement in an approved working situation.

Prerequisite: Completion of 12 hours in major field courses. Concurrent enrollment in CIS 235.
Semester Hour(s): 1 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec/week

An occupational experience utilizing on-the-job training. All students are required to spend a minimum of 15 hours each week on the job.

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in CIS 231.
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 15 lab/week